
Multiple Iranian hacking crews have been targeting internet-connected surveillance cameras across Israel and other Middle Eastern countries since the war started on February 28, according to Check Point security researchers. …
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WASHINGTON (ANP) - Een resolutie die de macht van president Donald Trump om aanvallen uit te voeren in Iran zou hebben ingeperkt, is gestrand in de Senaat. Zoals verwacht stemde een meerderheid tegen het voorstel, dat was ingediend door Democraat Tim Kaine en Republikein Rand Paul.
De initiatiefnemers wilden met de resolutie afdwingen dat president Trump parlementaire toestemming moet vragen om verdere aanvallen uit te voeren. Tegenstanders stellen dat het optreden van Trump wettig is en binnen zijn bevoegdheden als opperbevelhebber valt.
Paul was de enige Republikein die voor het aannemen van de resolutie stemde. De Democratische senator John Fetterman stemde tegen.
PORT CHARLOTTE (ANP) - De Nederlandse honkballers hebben twee dagen voor de start van de World Baseball Classic (WBC) het laatste oefenduel met Tampa Bay Rays gewonnen. Het Koninkrijksteam was in Port Charlotte, in Florida, met 11-8 te sterk voor het team uit de Amerikaanse Major League.
Bondscoach Andruw Jones werd deze week geconfronteerd met een positieve dopingtest van international Jurickson Profar, die inmiddels voor een jaar is geschorst. Jones riep woensdag Jakey Josepha op als vervanger voor Profar.
Oranje begint vrijdag aan de WBC, het officieuze WK, met een wedstrijd tegen Venezuela. De ploeg speelt in de groepsfase ook nog tegen Nicaragua, de Dominicaanse Republiek en Israël.
Visiting PM tells Australia’s parliament ‘middle power’ countries must work together on defence, trade and AI
Canada and Australia will be stronger negotiating together with superpowers including Donald Trump’s America, acting as “strategic cousins” rather than competitors, Mark Carney has told the Australian federal parliament.
In a major address in Canberra on the last full day of his visit to Australia, the Canadian prime minister called for enhanced cooperation on critical minerals, defence and trade and announced Australia would join the G7 critical minerals alliance, the largest grouping of democratic countries with major reserves in the world.
Continue reading...US study suggests GLP-1s, used to treat type 2 diabetes, could also reduce risk of people already using substances from overdosing
Weight loss drugs could help people avoid getting addicted to alcohol, tobacco and drugs such as cannabis and cocaine, a study has found.
They could also reduce the risk of people already addicted to illicit substances having an overdose, ending up in hospital or dying, according to research published in the British Medical Journal.
Continue reading...CEO’s claims come amid increased scrutiny of US military’s use of the technology and ethics concerns from AI workers
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees on Tuesday that his company does not control how the Pentagon uses their artificial intelligence products in military operations. Altman’s claims on OpenAI’s lack of input come amid increased scrutiny of how the military uses AI in war and ethics concerns from AI workers over how their technology will be deployed.
“You do not get to make operational decisions,” Altman told employees, according to reports by Bloomberg and CNBC.
Continue reading...Eddie Howe accepts his Newcastle side are at their best when they create chaos and no one in black and white is better at conjuring it than Will Osula.
The maverick Denmark Under-21 striker is, to say the least, unpredictable. No one, least of all Osula himself, ever seems quite sure what he will do at any given moment. Here though he stepped off the substitutes’ bench to score a fabulous, virtuoso 90th-minute winner for a home team reduced to 10 men by Jacob Ramsey’s controversial 45th-minute sending off for a perceived dive.
Continue reading...Shabana Mahmood hopes to reduce number of claimants in hotels by enabling them to support themselves
Up to 21,000 asylum seekers who have waited for a year for their claims to be processed could be allowed to enter the jobs market so they can support themselves, the Home Office has said, as part of a package of measures to be announced on Thursday.
As the government seeks to empty asylum hotels, claimants who break the law, work illegally or are found to have enough assets to live without support will from June be ejected and lose their support payments.
Continue reading...War powers vote broke along party lines with almost all Democrats in support and most Republicans opposed
Senate Republicans on Wednesday voted down an attempt to require Donald Trump receive Congress’s permission before continuing the war with Iran, batting aside concerns from Democrats that the campaign is illegal and risks plunging the United States into a prolonged conflict.
The 47-53 vote on a war powers resolution introduced by Virginia Democrat Tim Kaine broke largely along party lines. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was the sole Democrat to vote against the measure, while Rand Paul of Kentucky was the only member of the Republican majority to support the resolution.
Continue reading...Experts say backing Iran’s ethnic communities could ‘open up a hornet’s nest’ and increase risk of chaotic civil war
Intense waves of airstrikes have hit dozens of military positions, frontier posts and police stations along northern parts of Iran’s border with Iraq in what appears to be preparation by US and Israel for a new front in their war.
A US official with knowledge of the discussions between Washington and Kurdish officials said the US was ready to provide air support if Kurdish peshmerga fighters crossed the border from northern Iraq.
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From late January, a 40-minute talk by Rick Steves on “how lessons learned on the road can help Americans better understand and meet the challenges facing Democracy in the USA.”